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polyester concept
Mar 29, 2017

A couple more months and it'll be 10 years since their last studio album

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polyester concept
Mar 29, 2017

https://twitter.com/GeneWeen/status/910933166545915904

polyester concept
Mar 29, 2017

My guess is he fell off the wagon or decided to break up the band again, or both.

polyester concept
Mar 29, 2017

To be fair, Deaner said ween aint breaking up the last time ween broke up.

polyester concept
Mar 29, 2017

https://www.instagram.com/p/BeeC9ImHgV9

https://www.instagram.com/p/BfAFfyrnf91

:aaa:

polyester concept
Mar 29, 2017

BigFactory posted:

Is that Kurt vile in the second pic? They both look like poo poo.

It's kurt's instagram account, so yeah :P

polyester concept
Mar 29, 2017

I love lo-fi obnoxious poo poo so early ween is perfect for me. Anything before GWS is a little too unpolished, though (they had some cassettes you can find on :filez: websites). One time I was listening to The Pod and my speakers weren't hooked up securely - it added a sort of noisy bass distortion to everything and I was asking myself "why does this album sound so much more awesome today?". After I fixed it, I tried to reproduce it again later but could never get it the same.

polyester concept
Mar 29, 2017

me your dad posted:

Nowadays some of those songs can sound pretty ridiculous when sung by a 47 year old Gener.

The funniest part for me is watching the sound guys work with 100% earnest professionalism when they're performing a song like Nan on stage

polyester concept
Mar 29, 2017

poo poo that is awesome but I was hoping for a 2018 interview. Really got my hopes up

polyester concept
Mar 29, 2017

https://pitchfork.com/news/dean-ween-plans-to-open-a-legal-weed-concert-venue

:2bong:

polyester concept
Mar 29, 2017

also stroker ace is a fictional nascar driver and not a masturbation joke

polyester concept
Mar 29, 2017

DoubleCakes posted:

Did Ween seriously make a song about a 1983 action-comedy flop?

they made a song about a pony with a hosed up lung

polyester concept
Mar 29, 2017

My favorite is watching the professional sound guys at arena shows being forced to mix those insane early songs like it's Serious Business

polyester concept
Mar 29, 2017

Elephunk posted:

Seriously, if you love Ween but haven't heard this album then you're missing out. If you love this album and haven't heard any of the live shows on archive.org from the acoustic tour, you're extra missing out.

are there any SBD recordings?

polyester concept
Mar 29, 2017

polyester concept
Mar 29, 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ04mZXfpLw

polyester concept
Mar 29, 2017

Bold Robot posted:

I liked how stoked he got and thought it was kind of a fun video. :shrug:

Same

polyester concept
Mar 29, 2017

hexwren posted:

every time he tried to feel his way through one of those guitar lines, he'd always instinctively try and resolve it into blooze nonsense and, like, yeah, sure this youtube jagoff is a better guitar player than me, but it's like, gently caress, listen to what you're trying to play because that ain't it

the dude has an insanely trained ear for picking out chords and you're mad he couldn't nail it on his first try, the very first time hearing a song by a band he's also never heard before, from a live performance on youtube uploaded at 480p

polyester concept
Mar 29, 2017

I don't know anything about the phish incident but the guy seems generally stoked about ween, enjoys gener's facial expressions and deaner's screaming guitar. He asks for more ween recommendations at the end. It's not cringey or anything. He is a guitar teacher and he is trying to replicate the song as a little challenge, which seems to be what his youtube series is about. Y'all need to relax.

polyester concept
Mar 29, 2017

To me an obvious aspect of ween's staying power has been their evolution from their early bedroom recordings to polished studio recordings. If they had stayed lo-fi it would have gotten old and boring very fast and they would have been forgotten as a brief novelty act of the early 90s. I don't want to imagine a ween without C&C, White Pepper, or Quebec. La Cucaracha is good too but you can tell they were struggling which direction to take it.

polyester concept
Mar 29, 2017

Elephunk posted:

let's all endlessly fight about these albums because they sure as hell aren't ever going to write another song or put any effort into this band ever again

yeah they are still broken up as far as i'm concerned

polyester concept
Mar 29, 2017

yes

polyester concept
Mar 29, 2017

Yeah lol at all the armchair critics who’ve probably never written half as many kick rear end riffs as deaner

polyester concept
Mar 29, 2017

Kvlt! posted:

is there a good (legal) place to get live ween soundboards even if u have to pay?

also anyone recommend some good live shows (even if its just a link to an AUD) ive been digging live Ween a lot recently


http://www.browntracker.net/

Two of my fav non-commercially recorded shows are 11/07/1999 Somerville MA, and 10/03/2003 Vancouver BC. Both are soundboards

polyester concept fucked around with this message at 04:46 on Nov 2, 2020

polyester concept
Mar 29, 2017

as much as deaner loves the brown stuff, i think he is secretly a perfectionist and studies the recordings and videos to improve his game

polyester concept
Mar 29, 2017

Elephunk posted:

meanwhile, gener is trying to make it through lunchtime without three vodkas
Wwhat is the story here? i mean, it was probably inevitable that he would relapse (even just statistically) but has there been any public drama?

Speaking of, I always forget how much 'booze me up and get me high' rocks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUDT_CMAHC0&t=5832s

polyester concept
Mar 29, 2017

i am assuming you've heard all of the official live albums?

at the cat's cradle
live at stubb's
live in toronto
live in chicago
all request live (technically live in studio)
painting the town brown
god ween satan live

all good in their own ways

polyester concept fucked around with this message at 18:19 on Nov 3, 2020

polyester concept
Mar 29, 2017

^^ yess those were so good. i appreciated the trippy visuals they added to the video feed during deaners solos :)

edit: at 49:50 watching them play songs like Nan at a festival will always and forever be the most hilarious thing to me

poopship at 1:43:30 is godlike

polyester concept fucked around with this message at 18:47 on Nov 3, 2020

polyester concept
Mar 29, 2017

caligulamprey posted:

I've never heard this show in full, but there's a good reason why it's the first hit that comes up if you're looking for a live version of Springtheme, 'cause goddamn:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwWK3C3VFIo

:discourse:

polyester concept
Mar 29, 2017

Beastie posted:

This is how I am surviving the US General Election tonight.

:cheers:

I of course have a soft spot for the first night of the reunion show in broomfield, 2016, because I was there. :cool:

opening with "what deaner was talking about" was really sweet. then watching them jam together and the confetti flying during "roses are free" was magical to witness. especially because i ate a bunch of edibles before the show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O8TURtvl8o&t=150s

polyester concept fucked around with this message at 18:41 on Nov 5, 2020

polyester concept
Mar 29, 2017

aaron was somewhat active on twitter around 2016 for a while there. i remember him posting something on the day that prince died, but he promptly deleted it. he mostly just posted youtube links to cool music.

my guess is he is really loving depressed, and combined with having relapsed, doesn't want to be seen or heard by anyone. it is a really lovely place to be in.

hah oh wait wtf, he is still tweeting poo poo recently

https://twitter.com/GeneWeen/status/1319872165861232640

polyester concept
Mar 29, 2017

posting this again just because

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xHoX8JbTDg

polyester concept
Mar 29, 2017

la cucaracha has some really good poo poo on it. it feels maybe a little by-the-numbers or contrived which is why it's not a favorite and the band even says it's not their best work. but whatever it's still good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TggDxLF4FgQ

polyester concept fucked around with this message at 17:08 on Oct 6, 2021

polyester concept
Mar 29, 2017

just found this band and they’re giving me serious pure guava vibes

https://youtu.be/_7YdTx-oCRQ

polyester concept
Mar 29, 2017

Holy poo poo that is brown

Double holy poo poo that video is two years old? I think he is just blowing up on insta/tiktok right now

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polyester concept
Mar 29, 2017

I’m pretty sure the last time they were in western canada was the infamous Vancouver show

I flew to denver to see them for the reunion - god drat it’s hard to believe that was 7 years ago already

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